1 Th OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Wednesday Morning, January 1, 1930 PAGE THREE 11 Substantial Advance is Made By This State During i : -( a Past 12 Months " (Continued from,Pa I.) . Jones. Even the lowly Portland Baseball . team took . heart - and etased a last-minute rally that took It to the, top of the Pacific coast league standings and held it near there until the end of the eason. The University of Oregon finished In a tie for the Pacific coast conference football championship.- Farmers, however, were not unduly prosperous during the year Just ended, because of sev eral things. War's Crop to Gross Total of 9180,003,000 But Oregon farmers will real lie $180,000,000 for their pro ducts of 1929. This is $5,000,000 snore than the combined value of the state's agricultural products in 1928. Wheat was above the ave rage at $25,000,000, crop. Pear growers, got almost 100 per cent more than the previous year, be ing exceptionally favored. Prune growers were similarly fixed, .their increased return being con siderably more. Hay growers had a. good year, the apple men, the jtruck gardners and livestock men .fared not so well, however, but the general average was better. The state chamber of commerce alone located 800 new families in Oregon, families that bought 50,--600 acres and invested more than 13,000,000 cash. i Outside Markets for Lumbermen Open Up . Lumbermen saw better market outlets looming as 1929 drew to a close and were making prepara tions to meet it. In transportation spectacular strides were taken. The Southern Pacific company opened its new Alturas cut-off, built at a cost of $6,000,000. The Great Northern announced plans for an extension from Klamath Falls to California to provide a rorth and south route for that 'area east of the Cascades. The jTJnion Pacific system was direct ed by the Interstate Commerce (commission to build a road from 'Crescent Lake to Crane. Passen ger train schedules on railroads to the east, west and south were educed. A new, direct air mail route to the east was established at Portland. All In all, Oregon fared ex tremely well and indications are ,tbat she will fare better during Jthe new year. E- GREETS IBV YEIR (Continued from Page 1.) Was welcome. Tet the demonstration was or derly. Not a single arrest for drunkenness, or any misdemeanor more serious than speeding, had fceen made np to the "zero hour," and the noisy crowds were man nerly despite their excess of jubi i la t ion. It I seemed that everyone was out ..tooting a born or helping hold down a wnistie cora. oui mi was hardly the case. Within the rwalis of the Fox Elsinore, Bligh's Canitol and Hollywood theatres. ranaeitv crowds attending 'mid night matinees" were, if anything, surpassing the outdoor noisemak ers with "whoopee"" of their own, there were large crowds at public and private dances doing the same, and hundreds were in at tendance at watch parties whose demonstrations were but i little Jess vociferous. Radio listeners Hear Four Celebrations Then there were those citizens -who stayed at home but a ma jority of them' celebrated the opening of the new year by listen ing t a -the radio demonstrations. in fact thev had a distinct adN vantage over the other celebrants, .for. they heard the new year u s'jer ed in four times. First at 9 o'clock they heard New York City break loose In its own matchless style; at 10 o'clock Chicago followed suit with equal enthusiasm If not Quite equal voi time; at 11 It was Denver or Salt Lake City, and at midnight, the Pacific coast, stations. The downtown celebration here was so extensive that for the first time since the American Legion convention, there were ' traffic Jams on the principal street cor ners shortly -after midnight, when theatre parties and dances broke np and mingled with the general 'whoopee makers who were still careening noisily about the streets in automobiles. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (AP) information that American tug i- interests in Cuba had run short of funds to carry on their opposi tion In Washington to a mgner sugar tariff and had sought assist ance from Cuban mills in paying for the amnloyment of Enoch H. Crowder, formerAmerlcan ambas ador to the island republic was disclosed in letters made public to day by the senate lobby commit turn.- '. . 1r; . . '. Writing on last June .to Anre-, lio Portuendo, of the Cuban ttsu ine eomnanv. of Havana, H- C. La- kin, president of the Cuba com pany, said crowaer naa seen oi touch help to thexmoa interests in Washington since January 15 and had ; an "approach to senators which Is not-excelled, by that of wm mm DETAILS OF SUGAR hie n 426 SAVED AS SEA LINERS COLLIDE , ' -. ,, ., .r - . ... ... .'. ' , ; y. . .. .. TT - t Scenes at the pier as Ihe rescue tugs brought back to port passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Fort! Victoria, which was rammed by the S. S. Algonquin off Sandy Hook during a 'snse fog. ; j . DAMAGE SUIT If F1CE IM, REPORT Loss Resulting From North Winter Street Bridge Irks Residents Notice has been served on the city officials of Salem that the city will be held responsible for damage caused by the flooding of an area along North Mill Creek above North Winter street bridge between December IS and Decem ber 22. 1 The notice, filed with the city recorder Tuesday, is signed by P. A. Elker, 780 North 'Summer street; F.;w. Poor man, 790 North Summer; H. C. Epley. 798 North Summer; F. Ethel Lane, 794 North Summer, and N. C. Ka foury, 750 North Summer. At the time that the flooding was first reported, residents In that part of the city declared the design of the bridge was at fault. as It did not allow sufficient clearance for the water. They mentioned that - the false work used, in, Its construction had not been removed, but did not consid er this an important factor in the flooding. At present, with the false work practically all removed, the wa ter level la about 18 inches below th concrete span at the east side of the bridge, and the flow is not as great as It was while the flood was under way. Some doubt has been expressed as to the ade quacy of the space beneath the bridge in time -of high water. The Cottage street bridge, one block below, barely took care of the floor of two weeks ago. However, the contractor on the Winter street bridge, P. L. Fra iler. Is possibly liable for dam ages under his contract, as he did not have the bridge complet ed and the farms removed by De cember 1, the time specified. The matter will probably be discussed at the council meeting' Monday night. IN JAIL FOR THEFTS NEW LONDON, Conn., Dec. 31 (AP) With the investigation into the theft of liquor by coast guardsmen from the seized rum runner Flor Del Mar completed, preparations were being made to night for the disposition of the four rum running boats captured by the coast guard since Satur day night. In announcing the completion of the Investigation into the li quor thefts. Captain L. T. Chal ker. chief of staff of the destroyer force, today said that five men have been confined to brig for courtmartial. Several other guardsmen who were said to have been Intoxicated at -the base are on report. Captain Chalker denied reports that 875,000 worth of liquor had disappeared from the storehouse. Not more than six cases of liquor, he said, were stolen Sunday and nearly all of it has been recov ered. - .. .. . - Under the supervision of Cap tain Chalker the liquor seised on the Flor Del Mar was being trans ferred tonight from Jthe. store house pier to two patroiboats. The liquor will be taken to New Tork, probably Thursday. The two pa troiboats also will tow the Roam er with SeO eases of liquor and the fishing boat Leona.lf. Sproul with COO eases and fonr prisoners to.New. Yorhvi " --- -;;- niBH ; HALIFAX. N. 8.. Dec; f API J. EL Smith of the Inland Revenue department and J. Me Leod, nls assistant; were beaten by a mob' and their" automobile was rammed by an automobile truck' hero todayafter rum ' run ners and preventive forces had ex changed shots in a battla earlier, IN PLACED FOR LIQUOR C1H Their automobile was suitoub ed by a group of mesvwhile they were on their way to visit a liquor Wen. boat fcihe aja el.tttjur. ' - tor. The 12 or 14 men In the gang stopped the automobile and rained blows on Smith with clubs. McLeod was also struck. Ater beating the officers the men climbed into an automobile truck and rammed Into Smith's machine three times, wrecking It -.Smith said the buck was filled with lif quor taken from a motorboat which was near several nearby boat-houses. Earlier officers jumped a group of alleged, rumrunners who were attempting to salvage the contents I of a sunken motor boat near Birchdale.j Shots were fired and the group resisted the officers until the ar rival of j city policemen. The gang then! ran. The only one caught was William Gregoire, di ver, who "said he had been en gaged for; the salvage work. Two automobiles were seized, and a third stolen from the officers was later found abandoned with a case of whisky Jn it. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 11. (AP) Mrs. Mina Maker Gatens, widow of .the late Judge William N. Gatensj former circuit Judge, who died in 1927 as the result of heart attack, tonight surprised friends when she became the bride of Curtis Edson Van Bergen, who is connected with a local bond house. In a private ceremony at the home of the Rev. Oswald Tay lor, pastor; of the Grace Memorial Episcopal church. No inkling' of the ceremony had reached friends and the mar riage was revealed only through tbe routine filing of applications for a marriage license. No one was reported to have attended the ceremony except the neces sary two witnesses. v The marriage of Mrs. Gatens followed closely on the heels of that of herj daughter, Helen Gray Gatens, who married Walter J. O'Brien on December 18 at the Gatens family home In Dunthorpe, near here. I. BUFFALO, N. Y.,' Dec. 31. (AP) Three coast guardsmen in volved in the fatal shooting De cember 25 of Eugene F. Downey, Jr.. suspected rum runner, 'were being held for the grand' Jury cn charges of manslaughter, second degree, as! a result of tuelr ar raignment ithis "afternoon In city court. The! guardsmen, Randolph H. Thompson, Asa Ewnes and Or ville La Grant, pleaded net guilty. They were ordered held under surety bonds of 85000 eacn. Their cases will be among tne first presented to the grand Jury when it sits on January S, said District Attorney Guy B. i Moore, who conducted the inquest leading to the arraignment. Appearing in court after being fingerprinted at police headquar ters, the guardsmen, on the advice of their counsel. Federal Attorney Richard Hj Templeton, waived pre liminary examination. . i JUDGE'S WIDOW IS MARRIED SUDDENLY MEN CHIDE OF ffllMGHTFJ Here's : Wishing You A Happy and . Prosperous New Year . - i Roth Grocery Co. 134 North Liberty Street SaJea 1 -"- I f V 4h r it- The S. S. Fort Victoria was holiday bound for' Bermuda. Fine seamanship averted what might have been a terrible disaster. The entire list, of passengers and crew were hrouarht safely to shore. . LIQUOR REBELLION RETS EM BLOW Substantial Sentences Are Meted Out to Officials Of Idaho Town COEUR D'ALENE, Ida., Dec. 31 (AP) The "Mullan whiskey rebellion" received Its death blow today, as 24 men and women were given prison sentences and assess ed fines for conspiring against the national prohibition act. The mayor and trustees of Mullan, charged by the govern ment with: licensing liquor and vice for the benefit of the village treasury, and the sheriff of Sho sone county, together with bar tenders and women operators of disorderly houses, stood up to be sentenced by Federal Judge J. Stanley Webster after a trial unique in the United States. The chief characters in the con spiracy and their sentences fol low: Sheriff R. E. Weniger of Sho shone county, two years in federal prison and $1,000 fine; Deputy Sheriff Charles Bloom IS months; Chief of Police F. E. Welch, 15 months; H. Norphy, policeman, a year and a day; Mayor Arthur Harwood, 18 months and 11,000 fine. George Houston, trustee, IS months; Henry Foss, trustee, ten months; Charles Rlstau, trustee, ten months; John Wheatley, trustee, IB months. EIELSDN'S SISTER S U R E HE'S U PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 81 (AP) Confidence that her bro ther, Carl Ben Eielson, American aviator who has been lost for more than seven weeks In the Ar tie region, will be found was ex pressed here tonight by Miss Ade line Eielson, teacher of Wenat chee. Wash., who is spending the holidays with Mrs. G. H. Royer of Xhis city. "Ben told us before he left that we mustn't worry if we didn't hear from him for months," she said. "So I am not worrying. I am sure he will be found or will show up. Naturally, I feel anx ious about him and I watch the papers closely for any word, ; but I am confident he will be home soon to tell us of his experience." Eielson was accompanied by Earl Borland, mechanic. Legal Actions Are Numerous '. Past 12 Months A compilation of eases filed and tried in the circuit court of Mar lon county during the year 1929 was being prepared by, clerks at the.eounty clerk's office Tuesday. The report, while not officially complete, is listed as follows: law actions filed, 414; equity suits filed, 190;l divorce suits filed, 200; criminal actions. 6 2. v Casea tried .before court or Jury i Vi:-ys --y. , yyy - a y . were as follows: civil cases tried by Jury, 56; criminal cases tried by jury 4; equity suits tried by jury none; law actions tried by court 8; equity suits tried by court 10; contested divorces, 9; default divorces, 150. It was esti mated that the ost of jury trials of criminal cases was $650. - T PARIS, Dec. 31. (AP) Three Italians 'were arrested tonight on suspicion of plotting against Fas cists and In the home of one of them police found quantity of high explosives, a number of de tonators, and other materials for making bombs. The arrests and raid were made by agents of the Brete General, the French Scotland Yard, which lends Its efforts particularly, to ward the protection of the state and of prominent personages. The police alleged that those ar rested had maintained relations with Camllio Bernerl who was ar rested about a week ago In Brus sels, Belgium, and who confessed to a dual plot against the lives of. the Belgian royal family as they journey to Italy for the wed ding of Princess Marie Jose, on January 8. - The Havas News Agency des cribed the prisoners as Italian newspaper men. Their names were given as Alberto Clanca, Giuseppe Sarbelll and Alberto ParchlanL It was at the home of Clanca that the explosives were found. The Havas Agency indicat ed that the three were perhaps plotUng against the Italian naval delegation which will pass through France enroute to the London conference next month. The exact nature of the plot has not been disclosed. 1 (JESTED FOB BOMBING FLO A Happy New Year To Wish you a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year and to THANK YOU for your patronage during the past year -T. J. Brabec Insurance Agency "INSURANCE FOR ALL NEEDS" 116 New Bligh Bldg, Salem, Phone 2549 Mew Year's Greeting 990 N. Front Cold Storage for Fresh Fruits, C o l d Packed Fruits, Vegetables, Meats, etc. Bonded storage warerooms Garlot icing. , r Perfect Refrigeration WILL BE BRIGHT Optimistic View is Taken by Government Officials At Washington . (Continued from Page 1.) approximately - S3. 250,000, 000. Broadly speaking,) the business history of 1929 recorded the con tinuation of a movement which has been substantially unbroken for an exceptionally long period." Food Surplusses Found Lacking This Tear As to the farm future the agri culture department head said the new year was beginning "with no depressing surplusses of food pro ducts to be worked off," although the 1929 crops had been worth $85,000,000 more than those of 1928, the livestock sales in the same period $90,000,000 better than those of 1928. The advance of the government toward association with vital eco nomic national progress was most marked in 1929 in the agricultur al field, for the year end finds a federal- board, armed with $500, 000,000 of federal funds, oversee ing the whole of national farm product marketing. Aside from the direct grappling with farm problems, the govern ment's contact with business un dertaken in 1929 : included also the partial shaping of a new tar iff policy, still uncomplete and in bitter controversy as 1930 begins. Secretary Mellon's mention of tax reduction and credit matters' re ferred indirectly, also, to the long and action filled period of the old year when the federal reserve sys tem faced the increasing credit strain arising from ever mounting security speculation that culmin ated in October and November with stock exchange depression. After tbe bursting of the spec ulative bubble came the signifi cant step of the government into what was historically an unprece dented role. President Hoover, in the last months of 1929, summon ed the leaders of finance, trans portation, commerce, agriculture and labor from all parts of the country' to Washington, and with their cooperation, laid down a program of expanding capital ex penditure, of instituting construc tion activity, and of taking a ser ies of considered steps with the announced purpose of adverting economic depression. The year closed with this demonstration of governmental participation in na tional economic life still in prog ress.: SPEIGFfTWILLFAGE (Continued from j Page 1.) grand jury here in connection with the death of little Lawrence Walker t of ML Angel who was killed in an automobile accident when Speight's car; overturned. "Scotty" was adjudged insane and committed to the state asylum last August and less than a month lat er he was discharged from that In stitution on condition that he re turn to his former home In Can ada and remain there. But Speight decided not to re main in Canada and returned here to frequent his former busi- CHARGE OF KILLING 1P(a?DDuffljufl Iks soacfl (3M I ness location, a market located on South 12th street. The man con tinually defied the authorities to come and get him and finally the bench warrant on the manslaugh ter charge was gotten out and turned over to the sheriff for service. Information from Roseburg to the effect that Speight was seen in that district, caused Sheriff Bower to send the warrant south. Ife was arrested near Roseburg Monday night and Tuesday Depu ty Sam Burkhart left to return Speight to this city where he was locked up In the county jail. SLR CHARGES "NAPA, Cal.. Dec. 31. (AP) District Attorney W. G. Ruther ford of Napa county said today he would withhold charges of assault with a deadly weapon and assault with intent to commit murder against Mr. and Mrs. John South pending the outcome of bullet wounds received by Federal Pro hibition Agent Robert D. Freeman n a liquor raid Sunday on the South home near here. - Freeman was shot twice, one bullet shattering bones In his right wrist and the other striking him in the shoulder and ranging downward to lodge near his lung. Bones in the wrist were set today. X-rays determined the other bul let had not injured the lung and it was considered possible - an operation would not be performed to remove the slug. At the Victory hospital here, where Freeman was taken following the shooting, it was said he would recover barring complications. BLAST HURTS WOMAN NEW ORLEANS Dec. SI (AP) An, aged woman was slight ly hurt tonight when an explosion ripped up, the front section of a street car in the upper section of the city. The explosion was sim ilar to many that have marked the street car strike here. IvIAr BE PREFERRED ' . -J If your furnace does not heat satisfactorily We Can Cure It H. B. SEAGRAVE Inquire at Allen's Hardware Store or call 2568-R Mm "as ! In wishing you a Happy New Year, I thank you for your past patronage . . . and ask only th happiness of retaining old friend ships and making new ones. - David Smith Sales Manager Capital Motors Co. S50 N. High Careful, Responsible I ilanacement a SI Remainder of Programs WiJI Be Presented Free to: General Public r (Continued from Pag 1.) first. Jack Horsford second. Max ' Hauser third. . Flint collections . Clayborn Dyer first. Reid Hanson i second. Howard Sehon third. Cu- ' rio collections David Thompson first, Sidney Wiederhom. Becond, Sam Summers third. - Single ex- - hiblt, relics Norman Weaver first William Mosher second. Fin- gle exhibit, curios Byron Ran-- w daU first, Dick Pierce second. ' - - , Section VIII. Mechanical and' technical. Class A. PhQ Brow- ' nell first. Allen Stewart second, Lloyd Street third. Class B. J" Georce Jackson first. Jm Vort "; reeond, Menalkas Selander third. '' section jl. uoosing. cage , Jack Ostlind first, Max Haufser second, Lee Koch third, Arthur Eaton fourth. Cookies Wilbur ' Curry. Hot dish Allen McCal lister. Biscuits Don Chambers -first, David Hoss second. Section XL School work. Class . A. Max Hauser first, Norman . Weaver second, Alvin McCarthy . third. Class B. Irving Hale first, Menalkas Selander second-. ' ' Section XII. Airplanes.- Class ;r A. Flying models. Stanley Nets ', -first, Waldo Mills second, Dan Clark third. Scale models, Or vllle Varty first, Harry ,Wesdy second", "Harvey Larsen third. Class B. Flying models. Oscar" Gingrich first, Robert Hulat sec ond, ficale models, Paul Franklin first, Harold Eyerly second. Oscar Gingrich third. Harold Eyerly won the grand prize tor the best -collection. Southwestern university, at Georgetown, Tex., has a set- of r triplets in Its student body for the first time In the school's II years. Phone 177 4, it. 3 -- ;